The picture showed Serena walking with noisy steps with her racket , which recently led to the controversial penalties. She was fined $17000 before losing the match to Japan’s Naomi Osaka.

Rowling voiced her opinion through Twitter as “Well done on reducing one of the greatest sportswomen alive to racist and sexist tropes and turning a second great sportswoman into a faceless prop.” The tweet goes like:

Well done on reducing one of the greatest sportswomen alive to racist and sexist tropes and turning a second great sportswoman into a faceless prop. https://t.co/YOxVMuTXEC